UCLA/VA Multicampus PM&R Residency Program - Veteran Hospital Long Beach

UCLA/VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Multicampus PM&R Residency Program is an ACGME-accredited residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation based in Los Angeles, California. With four clinical fellows in pain medicine and 26 PM&R residents enrolled in the program, it is one of the largest PM&R residency programs in the West Coast and one of a handful of PM&R programs in the U.S. to have its own pain medicine fellowship program.

History

The program started in 1955. The program has trained over 200 physiatrists thus far. As with other VA-affiliated programs, UCLA-VA Multicampus Program grew in part due to increasing federal funding for research and development in the field of prosthetics and rehabilitation in the 1950s and 1960s. The Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (later Social and Rehabilitation Service) provided grants to support training programs for physiatrists and emerging PM&R departments. Research, and to lesser extent technology, was an important part of these training objectives.

West Los Angeles VA Medical Center opened in 1977 and the PM&R Department established an immediate presence, caring for patients who returned from the recent conflicts in Southeast Asia. The UCLA-VA Multicampus Program grew in size in the 1970s and 1980s with the addition of residents from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center.

Rotating hospitals

Residents in PM&R care for patients in the following hospitals:

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles
• Long Beach VA Medical Center
• Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
• UCLA Medical Center
• VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Faculty

The current faculty includes

UCLA

• D. E. Fish, MD MPH
• J. P. Prager, MD MS
• J. Jung, MD

VA

• D. Aragaki, MD
• A. Basu, MD
• E. Ben-Ozer, MD
• S. A. Chrissian, MD MS
• B. Darvish, MD
• A. Dumas, MD
• G. Etnyre, MD
• S. Gohari, MD
• H. S. Kim, MD
• C. F. Kunkel, MD
• L. S. Miller, MD
• A. Miranda, MD
• N. Kerendian, DO
• A. Nastasi, MD
• D. Opava-Rutter, MD
• R. Ovsiowitz, MD
• S. Pangarkar, MD
• Q. G. Pham, MD
• A. M. E. Scremin, MD
• O. U. Scremin, MD PhD
• M. Tran, MD
• A. Wallbom, MD MS
• M. Zappaterra, MD PhD
• M. D. Zirovich, MD

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

• Z. A. Ayyoub, MD
• M. Scott, MD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• S. Bamshad, MD
• J. M. Baumgarten, MD
• S. Hsu, MD
• C. Mathis, MD
• A. Meyer, MD
• M. Nasmyth, MD
• K. Paresa, MD
• J. J. Pryde, MD MS

Long Beach VA

• L. Chen, DO
• S. Chun, MD

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

• K. Craig, DO

Residents (Chief Residents in bold)

Notable alumni

• Dixie Aragaki (2004) - Program Director, PM&R Residency Program, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System / UCLA
• Arash Asher (2007) - Director, Cancer Survivorship & Rehabilitation Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Vincenzo Castellano (2006) - Medical Director of the Integrative Care Center, Hospital for Special Surgery
• Frederick Davis - Former Chief, Department of PM&R, Kaiser West Los Angeles Medical Center
• Armen Dumas (1981) - private practice in the San Fernando Valley and VA staff
• Robert Galbraith (1981) - private practice in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles
• David Hyams (2006) - Physiatrist, Department of Orthopaedics, Hospital for Special Surgery
• D. Casey Kerrigan (1991) - Former Chair, Department of PM&R, University of Virginia
• Quynh G. Pham (1996) - Program Director of PM&R Pain Fellowship Program and Associate Program Director of PM&R Residency Program, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System / UCLA
• A. M. Erika Scremin (1983) - Chief, Department of PM&R, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
• Neal K. Sheade - Chief Emeritus, PM&R Department at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center
• Steve Yoon (Pain Fellow) - A team physician for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Lakers
• Eric Chang (2010) - Pain Medicine Attending Physician at University of California at Irvine College of Medicine; NIH RMSTP K-12 Fellow 2011-2014
• Beny Charchian (2010) - Founder of the The Joint and Spine Institute in Beverly Hills, CA

Program directors

• D. Aragaki, MD (Program Director, PM&R Residency Program)
• D. E. Fish, MD MPH (Associate Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship)
• Q. G. Pham, MD (Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship)

Pain medicine fellowship program

The pain medicine clinical fellowship program was started in 2001.

Pain fellows

Selected research publications

• Kim W, Charchian B, Chang EY, Liang LJ, Dumas AJ, Perez M, Siebens HC, Kim HS (2013). "Strengthening information capture in rehabilitation discharge summaries: an application of the Siebens Domain Management Model". PM&R 5 (3): 182-188. doi:10.1016/j.pmrj.2013.01.003. PMID 23481328. 
• Aragaki DR, Nasmyth MC, Schultz SC, Nguyen GM, Yentes JM, Kao K, Perell K, Fang MA (2009). "Immediate effects of contralateral and ipsilateral cane use on normal adult gait". PM&R 1 (3): 208-213. doi:10.1016/j.pmrj.2008.10.002. 
• Fish DE, Shirazi EP, Pham Q (2008). "The Use of Electromyography to Predict Functional Outcome Following Transforaminal Epidural Spinal Injections for Lumbar Radiculopathy". Journal of Pain 9 (1): 64-70. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2007.08.011. PMID 17974488. 
• Kunkel CF, Figoni SF, Baumgarten JM, Carvalho CM, Kim HS, Oshiro RL, Zirovich MD, Scremin OU, Scremin AM (2007). "Scanning laser-Doppler imaging of leg- and foot-skin perfusion in normal subjects: analysis of age, gender, site, and laser-type effects". Am J Phys Med Rehab 86 (4): 262-271. doi:10.1097/PHM.0b013e3180383526. PMID 17413539. 
• Patel S, Ho JT, Kumar R, Lai K, Ahangar B, Burgar CG, Scremin AE (2006). "Changes in motoneuron excitability in hemiplegic subjects after passive exercise when using a robotic arm". Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87 (9): 1257-61. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2006.05.026. PMID 16935064. 

See also

• PM&R Residency Programs in the United States

References

1. ^ information from FREIDA
2. ^ Main website
3. ^ Website for VA/UCLA PM&R Residency Program Website accessed 3 Feb 2009
4. ^ From JRRD accessed 18 Jan 2007
5. ^ long-beach.med.va.gov
6. ^ losangeles.va.gov
7. ^ Faculty list accessed 18 Jan 2007
8. ^ greaterla.va.gov
9. ^ http://www.kerlanjobe.com/Physicians/steve_yoon_md.aspx
10. ^ http://www.anesthesiology.uci.edu/research_faculty_chang.shtml
11. ^ http://www.physiatry.org/Research_RMSTP_Fellows.cfm

External links

• VAGLAHS Dept of PM&R
• Website for VA/UCLA PM&R Residency
• Pain Medicine Fellowship Program

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